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Edward Moore Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009) was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts who served as a member of the United States Senate from 1962 to his death in 2009.
Ted Kennedy in 1968. U.S. Senator Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy, aged 37, and his cousin, Joseph Gargan, aged 39, [Notes 1] planned to race Kennedy's sailboat, Victura, in the 1969 Edgartown Yacht Club Regatta on Friday and Saturday, July 18 and 19, 1969, after having forgone the previous year's Regatta, because of the assassination of Kennedy's brother, Robert, that June. [13]
Virginia Joan Bennett was born at Mother Cabrini Hospital in New York City. [1] She was raised in a Roman Catholic family [1] in suburban Bronxville, New York.Her parents were Virginia Joan Stead (1911–1976) and Harry Wiggin Bennett Jr. (1907-1981) [1] Her father was a graduate of Cornell University and worked as an advertising executive.
Ted Kennedy, then a senator, drove the car off the bridge after leaving a cookout party at a rented cottage, The Atlantic reported. His passenger, a woman named Mary Jo Kopechne, died at the scene.
The vacancy that prompted the special election was created by the death of Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy on August 25, 2009. Kennedy had served as a U.S. senator since 1962, having been elected in a special election to fill the vacancy created when his brother John F. Kennedy was elected president of the United States in 1960.
Edward Kennedy's new biographer wrestles with the senator's terrible flaws and his remarkable political legacy
Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) Electoral history of Ted Kennedy , United States Senator from Massachusetts (1962–2009) and, at the time of his death, the second most senior member of the Senate. United States Senate races
He fought with congressional leaders like newly installed House Speaker Tip O'Neill, D-Mass., and powerful Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., over items like re-organizing the government (to give the ...